Creating and deleting profiles

You can create and delete profiles, which are sets of files that define the runtime environment. At least one profile must exist to run the product.

Before you begin

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] This task assumes a basic familiarity with the wasprofile command, the Profile Creation wizard, system commands, and profile concepts.

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Typically, you create a profile when you install the product. Depending on which WebSphere Application Server product you have you might create additional profiles.

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] You can create profiles through the Profile Creation wizard or the wasprofile command.

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] For the Network Deployment product, you can create any combination of the deployment manager profile, application server profiles, or custom profiles.

[Linux] [HP-UX] [Solaris] [AIX] Non-root users can create their own profiles so that they can manage their own application servers. Typically, non-root users manage application servers for development purposes.

You can delete profiles through the wasprofile command or by other means if necessary. You might delete a profile if the configuration that you specified in the profile is not what you want.

Perform any of the following tasks to create or delete profiles.

Procedure

Results

You created a profile to manage your product runtime environment and might have started an application server, depending on the tasks you completed. You might have deleted a profile.

What to do next

Depending on the tasks that you completed, you can start a server, or proceed to other tasks, such as deploying an application.



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